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- GoodmorningI am William Wordsworth
- I was born in 1770 in the Lake District, in the north-west of England.I went on a walking tour of France at the end of 1791 and became a supporter of the French Revolution.In London I met the philosopher William Godwin and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By this time, Wordsworth had become intensely disillusioned with the Revolution, whose initial ideals had degenerated into the so-called 'Terror' of 1793-94.
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- In 1802 he married Mery Hutchinson and day had five children. In 1843 he was made poet Laureate. In 1850 he died amd was buried in Grasmere.
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- The first edition of Lyrical Ballads was published jointly and anonymously by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798. Most of the poems were by Wordsworth, but Coleridge contributed several including his famous The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.In 1800, the second edition came out with Wordsworth's name.Wordsworth's object was 'to give the charm of novelty to things of every day while Coleridge's was to direct himself to 'persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic in orderto provoke a 'suspension of disbelief".
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